Question

Your doctor diagnoses you with Strep throat, and then prescribes you an antibiotic to take for 10 days. After 7 days, you feel much better and no longer show any symptoms. Is it ok to go ahead and stop taking the antibiotic? Explain your answer

Answer 1

No, it isn't okay to stop taking them on your own.
Instead of getting rid of it completely by taking all of your douses, the changes of getting strep throat again is very high!

Answer 2

No, you need to continue with the treatment for 10 days, even if you get better.

Step-by-step explanation:

Every time a person does not finish his antibiotic treatment, he gives a huge chance for the bacteria to return with more resistance to the body, and may even aggravate the initial situation. The drug kills non resistant bacteria, left over resistant ones. By closing in the middle of the treatment it will allow some bacteria to remain that could come to continue the infectious process he had at the beginning. In a long term, this interruption contributes to the process called bacterial resistance. That is, the bacteria are becoming resistant to those drugs.